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4 <head>
5 <title>urxvtc - control the urxvtd daemon</title>
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12 <p><a name="__index__"></a></p>
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15 <ul>
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17 <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
19 <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#options">OPTIONS</a></li>
21 <li><a href="#exit_status">EXIT STATUS</a></li>
22 <li><a href="#environment">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
23 <li><a href="#see_also">SEE ALSO</a></li>
24 </ul>
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27 <hr />
28 <p>
29 </p>
30 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
31 <p>urxvtc - control the urxvtd daemon</p>
32 <p>
33 </p>
34 <hr />
35 <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
36 <p><strong>urxvtc</strong> [same options as for urxvt]</p>
37 <p>
38 </p>
39 <hr />
40 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
41 <p>This manpage describes the <strong>urxvtc</strong> client program. It connects
42 to the <strong>urxvtd</strong> daemon and requests a new terminal window. It
43 takes the same arguments as the <strong>urxvt</strong> program. The environment
44 will also be respected. Currently, it always returns immediately after
45 contacting the daemon.</p>
46 <p>
47 </p>
48 <hr />
49 <h1><a name="options">OPTIONS</a></h1>
50 <p>All options that are valid for <strong>urxvt</strong> are valid for
51 <strong>urxvtc</strong>, too. Please note that all options are currently
52 interpreted in the context of the daemon process, which makes a difference
53 for options that specify a file descriptor (such as <strong>-pty-fd</strong>).</p>
54 <p>
55 </p>
56 <hr />
57 <h1><a name="exit_status">EXIT STATUS</a></h1>
58 <p>If everything went well, urxvtc returns with an exit status of <code>0</code>.
59 If contacting the daemon fails, it exits with the exit status <code>2</code>. In all other error
60 cases it returns with status <code>1</code>.</p>
61 <p>This can be used to implement auto-starting behaviour, by checking for an
62 exit status of <code>2</code>, running <code>urxvtd -f -q</code> and retrying the call
63 to urxvtc.</p>
64 <p>
65 </p>
66 <hr />
67 <h1><a name="environment">ENVIRONMENT</a></h1>
68 <p>All environment variables of the current process will be made available
69 to the new instance, and will be interpreted as if <strong>urxvt</strong> were
70 started directly.</p>
71 <dl>
72 <dt><strong><a name="item_rxvt_socket"><strong>RXVT_SOCKET</strong></a></strong>
73
74 <dd>
75 <p>Both urxvtc and urxvtd use the environment variable
76 <em>RXVT_SOCKET</em> to create a listening socket and to contact the
77 urxvtd, respectively. If the variable is missing,
78 <em>$HOME/.rxvt-unicode-<em>&lt;nodename</em> </em>&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; is used. The variable must
79 specify the absolute path of the socket to create.</p>
80 </dd>
81 </li>
82 </dl>
83 <p>
84 </p>
85 <hr />
86 <h1><a name="see_also">SEE ALSO</a></h1>
87 <p>urxvt(7), <code>urxvtd(1)</code></p>
88
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